Ambush

LONDON (Reuters) - What do Danish footballer Nicklas Bendtner's underpants and contact lens worn by British sprinter Linford Christie have in common? They featured in memorable unauthorised marketing stunts at major sports tournaments. Sponsors channel billions of dollars into events like this month's Olympics in London, but rival companies come up with all manner of wheezes to try to publicise their brand for free in s-called ambush marketing. "It's no longer just sport clothing...

LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - A former top European official challenged EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso in court on Monday, declaring he was unfairly forced out of his job and maintaining his innocence in a graft scandal. John Dalli was forced to quit as EU health commissioner last October after his associate was accused of asking for 60 million euros ($83 million) from a tobacco firm in return for Dalli's help in influencing EU tobacco law. On Monday,...

An armed man and woman shouting about a "revolution" opened fire and killed two Las Vegas policemen who were eating lunch in a pizza parlor on Sunday, then fatally shot a civilian in a nearby Wal- Mart store before killing themselves, police said. The two uniformed patrol officers, later identified as Alyn Beck , 41, and Igor Soldo , 31 - both family men - were ambushed without provocation shortly before 11:30 a.m. local time inside a CiCi's Pizza shop,...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Boko Haram rebels killed four Nigerian soldiers in a night ambush outside the northeastern city of Maiduguri and several insurgents also died in the firefight, according to a statement on Wednesday from Defence Headquarters. Soldiers fired shots in the air at Maiduguri barracks on Wednesday because they were angry with their commanders about having been made to return at night to the city through an area where Boko Haram is fighting an...

KHARTOUM, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Four Nigerian peacekeepers were killed and eight wounded in an ambush in Sudan's western Darfur region, the international peacekeeper force UNAMID said on Wednesday. "They were killed last night some 2 kilometers from our regional headquarters in El Geneina. They came under fire from all sides," a spokesman for UNAMID said. (Reporting by Ulf Laessing)

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria's military ambushed militants on Tuesday, killing two fighters in an eastern region near where al Qaeda's north Africa branch claimed an attack on an army patrol last month, the defense ministry said. Troops attacked the militants in Kaddara in Boumerdes province about 50 km (31 miles) east of the capital Algiers early Tuesday morning, according to the ministry statement on APS state news agency. The eastern mountains were once the...

RIVER VOVODO, Central African Republic, May 13 (Reuters) - U ganda has captured one of the Lord's Resistance Army's top five rebels, bringing it a step closer to catching Joseph Kony, the LRA leader accused of war crimes, the military said on Sunday. Uganda People's Defence Forces said Caesar Achellam, a major general in Kony's outfit of about 200 fighters, had been captured in an ambush on Saturday along the banks of the River Mbou in neighbouring Central African...

KIEV (Reuters) - Seven Ukrainian soldiers were killed and seven wounded on Tuesday when their armored column was ambushed by pro-Russian separatists near the eastern Ukrainian town of Kramatorsk, the defense ministry and state security service said. It was the biggest single loss of life by the Ukrainian army since soldiers were sent into the mainly Russian-speaking east of the country to break up armed separatist groups who have seized control of towns and public buildings to...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The State Department said on Thursday it was "appalled" by an attack that killed four Nigerian peacekeepers and wounded eight others earlier this week in Sudan's western Darfur region. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the United States condemns the ambush on UNAMID personnel that occurred on October 2, and called for an investigation into the attack and for those responsible for the violence to be held accountable. UNAMID, the...

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Fourteen suspected members of the Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram were arrested in neighboring Niger on Tuesday after an attack on an army patrol in the eastern region of Diffa, the regional governor said. Diffa, some 1,400 km east of Niger's capital, Niamey, borders the Nigerian state of Borno, the center of Boko Haram's uprising. Tens of thousands of refugees have fled the fighting to the arid region, and local Niger officials have repeatedly voiced...

May 26 (Reuters) - A Kentucky policeman was shot and killed in an apparent ambush when he stopped to pick up debris on a highway exit ramp, the Courier-Journal newspaper said on Sunday. Bardstown Police Officer Jason Ellis, 33, was found shot to death on an exit ramp on the Blue Grass Parkway in north central Kentucky early Saturday morning. Investigators could not be reached for comment on Sunday. The Courier-Journal said state police answered a call...

KAGA BANDORO, Central African Republic (Reuters) - Gunmen attacked an evacuation convoy carrying hundreds of Muslims north from Central African Republic's capital on Monday, killing at least two people, according to a Reuters witness and an African Union peacekeeping official. The 1,300 Muslims were being escorted from Bangui by foreign peacekeepers to move them from attacks by Christian militia after a spiral of bloodletting that followed Muslim rebels...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - The colonel in charge of military operations against insurgents in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo was killed on Thursday in an ambush by the ADF-NALU, a Ugandan rebel group, the government said. Colonel Mamadou Ndala, who helped to secure the military defeat of the powerful M23 rebel movement in November, died of his wounds after a rocket attack on his vehicle near the village of Mavivi in North Kivu province. His killing highlighted the...

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Islamist militants killed at least 14 Algerian soldiers in an ambush in mountains east of the capital Algiers at the weekend in one of the deadliest attacks on the military in years. The troops were in the Tizi Ouzou region, 120 km (75 miles) east of Algiers, when they were attacked by al Qaeda's north African branch, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), state news agency APS and a security source said on Sunday. The attack on Saturday night came just...

Just as Jimmy Fallon 's new run on "Tonight' takes off, a group of advertisers is tackling the likable late-night host and trying to make him take part in their promotions. Since Fallon launched his "Tonight" tenure on February 17, advertisers appear to be hanging on his every word. After he discussed his desire to purchase a truck on the March 5 edition of the show, Ford, Nissan, General Motors and Dodge's Ram Trucks all issued tweets attempting to make a sale. Ram even...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - The colonel in charge of military operations against insurgents in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo was killed on Thursday in an ambush by the ADF-NALU, a Ugandan rebel group, the government said. Colonel Mamadou Ndala, who helped to secure the military defeat of the powerful M23 rebel movement in November, died of his wounds after a rocket attack on his vehicle near the village of Mavivi in North Kivu province. His killing highlighted the...